A tourist from Los Angeles suffered severe head trauma Friday after being hit by a scooter that kept on going on the Upper East Side, police said.
She was one of three people critically injured in separate traffic incidents across New York City Friday evening — including a 10-year-old boy who was hit by a car while crossing a street in Queens, according to police.
The 65-year-old woman in town from LA was crossing West 64th Street at Amsterdam Avenue at around 7:30 p.m. when a man on a black and red scooter slammed into her and then fled the scene, police said.
The woman was in the crosswalk and had the right-of-way, according to sources.
She was taken to St. Luke’s Hospital where she was listed as critically injured, with severe head trauma. Police are looking for the hit-and-run suspect, the NYPD said.
In Forest Hills, a 10-year-old boy was crossing 110th Street at Jewel Avenue a little before 9:30 p.m., when he was struck by a Honda CRV, police said.
The driver, a 20-year-old man, stayed on the scene. The child was taken to Columbia Presbyterian with severe head trauma, where he is in critical condition, police said.
The boy was walking alone in the crosswalk, according to detectives, but it is unclear if he had the right-of-way.
Earlier in Manhattan, a 41-year-old man lost control of his motorized scooter and crashed into a pillar at 1st Avenue and East 41st Street around 8:30 p.m., police said.
The man was taken to Bellevue Hospital with head trauma following the single-vehicle accident, according to detectives.
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